Unbelief Is Sin

Unbelief must be preached as sin which brings guilt and condemnation. But, sadly, our Hardshell brothers do not believe that unbelief is a sin. They do not believe that the unregenerate are duty bound to believe the truth of God. The rejection of the gospel and the truth of the word of God is because of unbelief, but our PB brothers do not believe the unregenerate have any command of God to believe the truth of God, and therefore their unbelief of the truth is no sin.

Said John Gill:

"Though such is the condition of man by the fall, that he cannot believe in Christ without the powerful influence of that divine grace which God is not obliged to communicate, yet it is not the withholding of that influence, or denying of that grace, which lays him under the necessity of not believing, but it is the corruption of his nature that lays and holds him in the chains of unbelief, and therefore his unbelief is not to be imputed to the want of this powerful influence, which God is not obliged to give, but to the enmity and wickedness of his heart, on which account he is justly blameworthy." (As cited by me here)

In my post titled "James Wells On Duty Faith" (here) I cited these words of Wells (who denied duty faith):

"Infidels may ridicule the Bible, but they never have been and never will be able to refute it. Now their argument, then, is this-that if faith be not a duty, unbelief is no sin. That is a very powerful declaration, and that is the stronghold of that doctrine; and I must hold with it, because it is a piece of logic as correct as possible; no man can deny it."

I have several other good articles on the subject of "duty faith." Just type those words into the search engine for this blog to find them.